There are four varieties of commercially viable coffee: Arabica, Liberica, Excelsa, and Robusta. Growers predominantly plant the Arabica species. Although less popular, Robusta tastes slightly more bitter and contains more caffeine.
SENSIBILITY
sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibility
(noun) (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation; “sensitivity to pain”
sensibility, esthesia, aesthesia
(noun) mental responsiveness and awareness
sensibility
(noun) refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions; “cruelty offended his sensibility”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
sensibility (countable and uncountable, plural sensibilities)
The ability to sense, feel or perceive; responsiveness to sensory stimuli; sensitivity. [from 15th c.]
Emotional or artistic awareness; keen sensitivity to matters of feeling or creative expression. [from 17th c.]
(now, rare, archaic) Excessive emotional awareness; the fact or quality of being overemotional. [from 18th c.]
(in the plural) An acute awareness or feeling. [from 18th c.]
(obsolete) The capacity to be perceived by the senses. [15th–17th c.]
Source: Wiktionary
Sen`si*bil"i*ty, n.; pl. Sensibilities. Etym: [Cf. F. sensibilité, LL. sensibilitas.]
1. (Physiol.)
Definition: The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.
2. The capacity of emotion or feeling, as distinguished from the intellect and the will; peculiar susceptibility of impression, pleasurable or painful; delicacy of feeling; quick emotion or sympathy; as, sensibility to pleasure or pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite sensibility; -- often used in the plural. "Sensibilities so fine!" Cowper. The true lawgiver ought to have a heart full of sensibility. Burke. His sensibilities seem rather to have been those of patriotism than of wounded pride. Marshall.
3. Experience of sensation; actual feeling. This adds greatly to my sensibility. Burke.
4. That quality of an instrument which makes it indicate very slight changes of condition; delicacy; as, the sensibility of a balance, or of a thermometer.
Syn.
– Taste; susceptibility; feeling. See Taste.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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